πούς
See also: πους
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Cognates include Mycenaean Greek 𐀡 (po) (dat. 𐀡𐀆 (po-de /podei/)), Latin pēs, Sanskrit पद् (pad), Old Armenian ոտն (otn) and հետ (het), Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐍄𐌿𐍃 (fōtus) and Old English fōt (English foot).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pǔːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pus/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /pus/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /pus/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /pus/
Noun
πούς • (poús) m (genitive ποδός); third declension
- foot
- leg
- (unit of measure) Greek foot or pous, the ancient Greek and Byzantine unit of length originally based upon the length of a shod foot
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ πούς ho poús |
τὼ πόδε tṑ póde |
οἱ πόδες hoi pódes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ ποδός toû podós |
τοῖν ποδοῖν toîn podoîn |
τῶν ποδῶν tôn podôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ ποδῐ́ tōî podĭ́ |
τοῖν ποδοῖν toîn podoîn |
τοῖς ποσῐ́ / ποσῐ́ν toîs posĭ́(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν πόδᾰ tòn pódă |
τὼ πόδε tṑ póde |
τοὺς πόδᾰς toùs pódăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πούς poús |
πόδε póde |
πόδες pódes | ||||||||||
| Notes: |
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| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | πούς poús |
πόδε póde |
πόδες pódes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | ποδός podós |
ποδοῖν / ποδοῖῐν podoî(ĭ)n |
ποδῶν podôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | ποδῐ́ podĭ́ |
ποδοῖν / ποδοῖῐν podoî(ĭ)n |
ποσῐ́ / ποσῐ́ν / ποσσῐ́ / ποσσῐ́ν / πόδεσσῐ / πόδεσσῐν posĭ́(n) / possĭ́(n) / pódessĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | πόδᾰ pódă |
πόδε póde |
πόδᾰς pódăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | πούς poús |
πόδε póde |
πόδες pódes | ||||||||||
| Notes: |
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Derived terms
- ᾰ̓́πους (ắpous)
- δᾰσῠ́πους (dăsŭ́pous)
- εἰλῐ́πους (eilĭ́pous)
- Ἑκᾰτόμπεδον (Hekătómpedon)
- ἐκποδών (ekpodṓn)
- ἐμποδών (empodṓn)
- ἐρῠθρόπους (erŭthrópous)
- ῐ̔στόποδες (hĭstópodes)
- κᾰλόπους (kălópous, “having beautiful feet”)
- κᾱλόπους (kālópous, “shoemaker's last”)
- κορωνόπους (korōnópous)
- μῡρῐόπους (mūrĭópous)
- ὀκτώπους (oktṓpous)
- ποδᾰνῐπτήρ (podănĭptḗr)
- ποδήνεμος (podḗnemos)
- πόδῐον (pódĭon)
- ποδοστρᾰ́βη (podostrắbē)
- ποδόω (podóō)
- ποδώκης (podṓkēs)
Descendants
- ⇒ Ancient Greek: πόδῐον (pódĭon)
- Byzantine Greek: πόδιν (pódin)
- Greek: πόδι (pódi)
- >? Mariupol Greek: пудъа́р (puðár)
- Byzantine Greek: πόδιν (pódin)
- → English: -pod, pous
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “πούς, ποδός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1227-8
Further reading
- “πούς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “πούς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “πούς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πούς in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- πούς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “πούς”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G4228 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- πούς in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007), Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.